1914 - Goodbye to All That: Writers on the Conflict Between Life and Art

by Jeanette Winterson, Elif Shafak, Colm Tóibín, et al.

Book Overview

In this collection of essays, ten leading writers from different countries consider the conflicts that have informed their own literary lives. 1914-Goodbye to All That borrows its title from Robert Graves's bitter leave-taking of England in which he writes not only of the First World War but the questions it raised: how to live, how to live with each other, and how to write.
Interpreting this title as broadly and ambiguously as Graves intended,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178227118X
• ISBN13: 9781782271185
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"